Contango Oil

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Contango Oil Gas Company
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Forward Looking Information

• The following presentation contains
  forward-looking statements and is made
  pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the
  Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
  Oil and gas activities are subject to risks and
  uncertainties inherent in the exploration,
  development, operation and marketing of oil and
  natural gas. These risks include, but are not
  limited to, volatility of products, prices,
  uncertainties in reserve estimates, drilling
  risks, operations and production risks and
  environmental issues. Results could vary
  materially from the forward-looking information.
  You are cautioned that such forward-looking
  statements should be read in conjunction with the
  available company information, including the most
  recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

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Depletion and The Red Queen

• Well in our country, said Alice, still panting
  a little, youd generally get to somewhere
  else-if you ran very fast for a long time as
  weve been doing.
• A slow sort of country! said the Queen. Now,
  here, you see, it takes all the running you can
  do to keep in the same place. If you want to get
  to somewhere else, you must run at least twice as
  fast as that!
• All quotes are from Lewis Carrolls Alice in
  Wonderland

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Where to Start?

• Started Fall 1999
• Since inception 30 million net capital raised
• At August 7/20 million of cash/10 million of
  unused debt capacity/ 10 million of debt/ 9
  million PV10/ 200 million E.V.
• Six employees
• 15 million shares outstanding/16.7 million shares
  fully diluted today - compared to 11.5 and 16.7
  million shares at June 30, 2001.
• 20 shareholders own 67 of stock
• 23 owned by Board of Directors

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. Where
shall I begin, please your Majesty? he asked.
Begin at the beginning, the King said, very
gravely, and go on till you come to the end
then stop.
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Which Path?

• The only competitive advantage in the natural
  gas and oil business is to be among the lowest
  cost producers
• Virtually all the exploration and production
  industrys value creation occurs through the
  drilling of successful exploratory wells
• Maximize value creation- PER SHARE

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to
go from here? That depends a good deal on
where you want to get to, said the Cat. I
dont much care where- said Alice. Then it
doesnt matter which way you go, said the Cat.
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Portfolio With a Porpoise

• LNG
• Fayetteville Shale
• Deep Shelf GOM Exploration
• R/Ps 50 Years/25 Years/ 2.5 Years
• Risk curve- lower risk/lower risk/ultra risky
• No Hedges- Full commodity price exposure-
• down and up

They were obliged to have him with them, the
Mock Turtle said no wise fish would go
anywhere without the porpoise.
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Contrariwise

• LNG- Long term annuity- Red Queen Antidote
• Funding in place for Phase I and mini Phase II
• No additional equity likely needed
• Mini expansion to 2.0-2.2? Bcf/d
• Start-up 2008 First grassroots plant in 30
  years
• Plant cost- 800 million
• August 06- On time/On budget

Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, if it was
so, it might be and if it were so, it would be
but as it isnt, it aint.
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Better And Better

• 44,000 net Fayetteville Shale mineral acres to
  Alta Group (31,000 Net BPO to MCF)
• 200 wells already drilled in play by SWN
• Still early in learning curve- will be in
  4,000-5,000 wells
• Horizontals and slick water fracs- getting
  better and better
• 9 horizontal wells per square mile/ 640 acres
• 600 Net potential locations/thousands of gross
  wells
• 2.5-2.0 million/well
• 1.5-2.0 Bcfe/ well
• 2.0 - 1.6 million IDC/well
• Working on getting second rig
• Working on gathering system

Youre wrong there, at any rate, said the
Queen were you ever punished? Only for
faults, said Alice. And you were all the
better for it, I know! the Queen said
triumphantly. Yes, but then I had done the
things I was punished for, said Alice that
makes all the difference. But if you hadnt
done them, the Queen said, that would have
been better still better, and better, and
better!
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Highlight of Fayetteville Shale Activity
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Decline Curves
Source SWN Press Release date July 31, 2006
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Theres More

• West Texas Barnett Shale Jeff Davis and Reeves
  Counties
• 5,853 acres (4,000 net to Contango)
• Quicksilver surrounds our acreage
• Play will take time
• Other onshore plays
• State Well Name Working Interest
• Texas El Capitan
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• Louisiana Temple- Inland 1
  77
• Alabama Alta Coley 22-10
  67.5

Take some more tea, the March Hare said to
Alice, very earnestly. Ive had nothing yet,
Alice replied in an offended tone, so I cant
take more. You mean you cant take less,
said the Hatter its very easy to take more
than nothing.
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Eyes At The Back Of Your Head

• 63 GOM blocks
• 4400 blocks 3-D seismic
• Grand Isle 72 discovery- on in October
• West Delta 43- dry hole
• High Island A279- dry hole
• Grand Isle 70- discovery
• Eugene Island 10 drilling
• Ship Shoal 358/ Eugene Island 76/
• Eugene Island 113B Producing

I dont quite know yet, Alice said, very
gently. I should like to look all around me
first, if I might. You may look in front of
you, and on both sides, if you like, said the
Sheep but you cant look all around
you- unless youve got eyes at the back of your
head.
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Liberty PlatformGrand Isle- 72
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Venture Capital

• 4.6 million investment in Alternative Energy
• 5 portfolio companies
• One company-Protonex is now public.
• Symbol PTX.L we have 600,000 shares _at_ /-
  1.70/share
• Will be seeking portfolio liquidity in 2007

Theres nothing like eating hay when youre
faint, he remarked to her, as he munched away.
I should think throwing cold water over you
would be better, Alice suggested. I didnt
say there was nothing better, the King replied.
I said there was nothing like it. Which Alice
did not VENTURE to deny.
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The Patience of An Oyster

• LNG annuity begins Q-1 2008
• Growing Fayetteville Shale production and
  reserves first frac and well test late August
• Dutch EI-10 drilling- log late September
• 16.7 million fully diluted shares
• 6 employees
• Board owns 23 of company

Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never
lose your temper! Hold your tongue, Ma! said
the young Crab, a little snappishly. Youre
enough to try the patience of an oyster!
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Forward Looking Information

• The following presentation contains
  forward-looking statements and is made
  pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the
  Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
  Oil and gas activities are subject to risks and
  uncertainties inherent in the exploration,
  development, operation and marketing of oil and
  natural gas. These risks include, but are not
  limited to, volatility of products, prices,
  uncertainties in reserve estimates, drilling
  risks, operations and production risks and
  environmental issues. Results could vary
  materially from the forward-looking information.
  You are cautioned that such forward-looking
  statements should be read in conjunction with the
  available company information, including the most
  recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.